Log weight?

[magnet]

Scotspine log 2.5 m long by 1m diameter. Rough estimate of weight. Anyone? Cheers

 

[voipio]

About 1 ton dried weight. Freshly felled, something more like 2 tons.

 

[TEO]

Sorry, no idea about the weight but I do know that you need info about drying ie. kiln dried or air dried and so the moisture levels.

 

[8ob]

Softwoods around half a ton per cube, moisture content is a bone of contention. Cutters like to be paid by the ton, hauliers/buyers like to pay for it by the ton, bun fights start when it’s sat for a month or two and dried.
Worth noting timber at the base of any tree is denser/heavier than that from higher up the trunk.

Bob

 

[mart]

Scotspine log 2.5 m long by 1m diameter. Rough estimate of weight. Anyone? Cheers

Is that 1m diameter a typo?

 

[magnet]

Is that 1m diameter a typo?

No, its 1m diameter

 

[premmington]

Softwoods around half a ton per cube, moisture content is a bone of contention. Cutters like to be paid by the ton, hauliers/buyers like to pay for it by the ton, bun fights start when it’s sat for a month or two and dried.
Worth noting timber at the base of any tree is denser/heavier than that from higher up the trunk.

Bob

Did'nt know that....

 

[Erie Fred]

Softwoods around half a ton per cube, moisture content is a bone of contention. Cutters like to be paid by the ton, hauliers/buyers like to pay for it by the ton, bun fights start when it’s sat for a month or two and dried.
Worth noting timber at the base of any tree is denser/heavier than that from higher up the trunk.

Bob

Is this just for firewood ?
I've cut trees on my own woods, and took them into a couple of local sawmills.
They all use the Doyle scale for measurement and payment around here.

we do have 1 local firewood processor, but I don't know how it's measured for suppliers.

 

[8ob]

Is this just for firewood ?
I've cut trees on my own woods, and took them into a couple of local sawmills.
They all use the Doyle scale for measurement and payment around here.

we do have 1 local firewood processor, but I don't know how it's measured for suppliers.

Over here Fred firewood and anything that goes for biomass is by weight. Anything here heading for a sawmill is a bit of a joke, measures like the hoppus foot are still used, I wont let anything go on a lorry until its been inspected and price agreed. Sent four artic loads of nice straight softwood sawlog to a mill a few years ago, they started sucking through their teeth so redirected it to a biomass plant.

Bob

 

[magnet]

Ive just shifted i'm guessing close to 3 ton of scots pine logs at the weekend that i got for free. The same bloke has 3 2.5 m sections of stem he wants shot of i was wondering how heavy they were likley to be so as not to overload my trailer. Our blisters will have blisters by the time we've split all this

 

[Migmac]

we used a loggers tape and a white ruler to measure logs then a book to tell us the rough weight. There is a formula , it’ll be on the net somewhere
When I was cutting I got paid by the bit, weight wasn’t important for us. 35p for 2.1m pulp and chip and 1.6m bars, 70p for 3.7m red logs, £1 for 3.7m green logs. 4.9m was over a pound but can’t remember by how much, we never cut many of them. Everything had to be stacked, by hand!